Word: discreeter
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...Roman Catholic Church has 2,500 bishops, and they perform their tasks in almost that many different ways. Some are brilliant theologians, some skillful spiritual teachers, some church politicians, some Jeep-riding missionaries, some discreet bureaucrats. But in the U.S., the dominant mold is the pastoral executive: the brick-and-mortar man whose memorial is a building program and whose theological concern takes second place to pragmatic interest in shepherding his people...
...sweetness and chastity, however. The maid (Bina Breitner) is having a not-so-discreet fling with a beatnik named Claude (Larry Gonick), and even Mother's cardinal virtues melt quickly into carnal pleasures in his agreeable arms...
Defenders of the final version claimed it was impossible to check or prove discreet discrimination. H. Reed Ellis, '65, chairman of the HUCA, pointed out that Dean Watson has said if discrimination could be proved against any Harvard organization, it would be called before the Faculty Committee. Ellis said Watson's statement had specifically included the final clubs...
...manager. His parents provide him with a bowler, a pinstripe, suit that conceals his bowlegs, nylon underwear that crackles when he walks, and a small "pied a terre" (or, foot in the grave) in Kensington. He learns the sales spiel handily enough ("A beautiful shoe, madam, seamless uppers, a discreet buckle and a soft dimple toe, and for a foot like yours with so little adhesion between the phalanges of the toe and the metatarsal joint . . ."), but he is desperately unhappy. Bernard has no friends. He burns with hopeless, timid lusts. He lingers before the posters advertising "Running Without...
...Vanderbilt Clark and Mr. Morton Gill Clark of New York." And proper it should have been, since the prospective groom's mother is undisputed Etiqueen Amy Vanderbilt, 55. The bride's parents followed her every instruction. The listing of the Clarks separately was a discreet indication they are divorced, and since Amy is "a newsworthy person," there was all sorts of genealogy tracing her son back to a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The Wolffs even accepted the Vanderbilt tip to release the news on Monday, "a slow news day." That was all in Chapter...